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Claude Debussy / Arabesque #1

(performed by Aldo Ciccolini)

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Debussy entertaining guests at the piano, 1893.

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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

Claude Debussy ~ Letter to Ernest Chausson (1894).

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Gabriel Fauré / Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 - Molto moderato (c. 1890-94)

*Jean Hubeau (piano), Quartet via Nova (Jean Mouillere, Herve Le Floch, violins; Gerard Causse, viola; Rene Benedetti, cello). Erato STU70550-4

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Steinlen, front cover of Stances à Manon, chansons d’amour (Stanzas to Manon, love songs), by Maurice Boukay, Paris, 1890.
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Steinlen, front cover of Stances à Manon, chansons d’amour (Stanzas to Manon, love songs), by Maurice Boukay, Paris, 1890.

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Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Anitra’s Dance, c. 1888-1891.

*This song seems to go well with the little collection of oddities and ephemera I’m posting today…

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Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini, 1886.

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“Tell Me Pretty Maiden” from Florodora, the musical of 1899.

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